Statue and Legacy
A decaying sculpture of Miller, in the title role of Sunny, can still be seen atop the old I. Miller Building on West 46th Street just off Broadway in Manhattan.
In the only published biography of Marilyn Miller, author Warren G. Harris called her "Ziegfeld's most dazzling star" and the premier musical comedy star of the Jazz Age. "She had rivals who may have been better dancers, singers, actresses, or mimics, but no one individual could equal her when it came to combining all those talents."
One of the poems from Patti Smith's 1972 book Seventh Heaven is called "Marilyn Miller".
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“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stood there from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”
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